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A cure (5×8 – 3/4/13)

A cure (5×8 – 3/4/13)

The implications of a cure for AIDS, where are the kids in local sports, the Klan in North Dakota, tribute for a code talker, and one for all the 'tortured souls.'
by Bob Collins

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When sinkholes strike

When sinkholes strike

The story out of Florida today is a horrific one. A man was in his bad around 11 p.m., when the earth opens up and swallows him. Jeffrey Bush, 37, is presumed dead below his home near Tampa.
by Bob Collins

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The art of the ‘Jedi mind meld’

There's no such thing as a Jedi mind meld.
by Bob Collins

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Ode to the ‘band kids’

Ode to the ‘band kids’

You don't usually hear about the kids in the school band getting into trouble. They tend not to jump on tables at lunch doing the Harlem Shake, or suspended from band for making sex tapes, and they're not usually the schoolyard bullies. Band -- music programs -- must be doing something right, or the programs just seem to attract a decent brand of child.
by Bob Collins

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Love and fish fries (5×9 – 3/1/2013)

Love and fish fries (5×9 – 3/1/2013)

Bruce Kramer on expressing love, get yourself to a fish fry tonight, how one interprets duty to one's country, St. Jose Canseco and, of course, the sequester.
by Nate Minor

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Woodward and one of another president’s men

Woodward and one of another president’s men

The Watergate-era star reporter suffers a public loss of perspective.
by Eric Ringham

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Same-sex marriage and one old woman’s tax bill

Same-sex marriage and one old woman’s tax bill

The same-sex marriage debate will begin anew in Minnesota tomorrow when sponsors of a bill to legalize same sex marriage unveil their initiative.
by Bob Collins

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‘An ATM shaped like an airport’

Small airports get pork money while air traffic controllers get furloughed.
by Bob Collins

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The price of judicial dignity

The Supreme Court of New Jersey is holding a hearing today on whether Judge Vince Sicari has to give up the night gig because it's undignified.
by Bob Collins

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